The existence of individual learning styles is a hot topic in contemporary education theory and practice. There is an ongoing debate on whether learners benefit from teaching methods that are tailored to their perceived learning styles. The majority of educators believe that such styles do exist and a striving industry benefits from this concept. However, experts conclude that the evidence on t...

AIM To determine the predominant learning style preferences of undergraduate nursing students. METHOD A demographic questionnaire and Honey and Mumford's (2000a) learning styles questionnaire were administered to a purposive sample of 136 students. RESULTS A response rate of 81% (110) was obtained. The results are congruent with U.K. studies, which show that the reflector is the preferred l...

Higher Education has struggled to acknowledge and translate into better teaching and learning practices that sizeable literature base suggesting a link between cognitive style, learning preferences and performance. Eighty undergraduate students on a primary education degree were studied to examine the relationship between their cognitive style, learning preferences and perceived impact on their...

According to many recent studies the effect of learning style on academic performance has been found to be significant and mismatch between teaching and learning styles causes learning failure and frustration. Thus balancing the teaching style and the students’ learning style is very important. When emphasizing the individual learning processes, web-based learning offers a good opportunity for ...

Computer-based logic proofs are a form ofùnnatural' language in which the process and structure of proof generation can be observed in considerable detail. We have been studying how students respond to multimodal logic teaching, and performance measures have already indicated that students' pre-existing cognitive styles have a signiicant impact on teaching outcome. Furthermore, a large corpus o...

INTRODUCTION learning is a human's natural tendencies; therefore, the identification of factors affecting it, is very important in fixing problems and deficiencies in educational systems. One of the factors contributing to students' academic achievement and increased learning outcome is to identify their learning styles leading to better and more satisfying learning. The aim of the present stud...

This article makes two different contributions: an analysis of learning styles among undergraduate students in different academic programs, and a proposed regrouping of programs in order to improve teaching practice. The study was conducted in Mexico City in a Mexican private university (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ITAM), among a sampling of 753 first-year students in 11 undergradu...

If students are demotivated, confused and look tired in class, one solution is to use new teaching styles in your class to overcome such problems. This is because learners learn in different ways such as hearing, seeing, taking notes, imagining and visualizing, among many others. The paper reports firstly, the impact of teaching and learning style preferences and their match or mismatch on lear...